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Here’s Ted Cruz at a speech in La Porte, Indiana, last weekend, responding to a young boy who shouts “you suck!” by saying the child should be spanked — like he does to children in his household.

“Thank you son. You know, I appreciate you sharing your views. You know, one of the things that hopefully someone has told you is that children should actually speak with respect. Imagine what a different world it would be if someone told Donald Trump that years ago. You know, in my household when a child behaves that way, they get a spanking.”

[Cheers from audience.]

Of course they cheered for Cruz advocating corporal punishment for children. These are Republicans.

By the way, check out how the Daily Caller’s article on this (linked above) attempts to clean up what Cruz said by putting it in the past tense as if he were talking about when he was a child.

“Imagine what a different world it would be if someone told Donald Trump that years ago. In my household, when a child behaved that way, they’d get a spanking.”